Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004
Latest action · Apr 8, 2004 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4006)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2004
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Closing the Health Care Gap Act of 2004 - Requires specified agencies to: (1) standardize health care quality measures across all Federal government programs; (2) standardize public reporting requirements; and (3) support data collection and reporting efforts in Federal and State agencies.
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to improve access to health care for health care disparity populations and to support efforts to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
Changes the name of the Office of Minority Health to the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities and changes the duties of the Office and its associated advisory committee to include health disparities as a problem to study and address.
Provides grants to support: (1) health professions education for racial or ethnic minorities or health disparity populations; and (2) curricula development for cultural competency training.
Requires the Director of the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities to: (1) develop and maintain an Internet clearinghouse to improve health care quality for individuals with specific cultural needs, limited English proficiency, or low functional health literacy; and (2) reduce or eliminate the duplication of efforts to translate materials.
Authorizes grants or assistance for and establishes programs and projects to address: (1) the analysis of the causes and sources of health care disparities and strategies to reduce disparities; (2) disease management; (3) the effective measurement of disparities; (4) the analysis and collection of health disparity data; and (5) the recruitment of minority scientists or research professionals to the health disparity field.
Cosponsors 8
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 12, 2004 to May 4, 2004, with 7 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-MO | Christopher S. Bond | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| R-MO | Jim Talent | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| R-VA | John Warner | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| R-TX | Kay Bailey Hutchison | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| R-OH | Mike DeWine | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| R-MS | Thad Cochran | Original | Feb 12, 2004 |
| R-MN | Norm Coleman | May 4, 2004 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Apr 8, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4006)
- Feb 12, 2004Introduced in Senate
- Feb 12, 2004Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Feb 12, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1308-1309)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Administrative procedure
- AIDS (Disease)
- Asthma
- Authorization
- Bilingualism
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Case management
- Child health
- Chronically ill
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinics
- Commerce
- Communicable diseases
- Communication in medicine
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Continuing education
- Curricula
- Data banks
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Diabetes
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Education of the disadvantaged
- Educational counseling
- Educational facilities
- Electronic government information
- Ethnic relations
- Families
- Federal advisory bodies
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to health facilities
- Federal aid to research
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Graduate education
- Health
- Health education
- Health facilities
- Health information systems
- Health insurance
- Health planning
- Health warnings
- Higher education
- Hospitals
- Human behavior
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Illiteracy
- Indian medical care
- Internet
- Land transfers
- Law
- Mediation
- Medicaid
- Medical education
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical screening
- Medical statistics
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Minorities
- Minorities in medicine
- Minority education
- Minority health
- Names
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nursing education
- Obesity
- Performance measurement
- Poor children
- Preventive medicine
- Public health personnel
- Public hospitals
- Public-private partnerships
- Quality of care
- Research grants
- Right of privacy
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Scientists
- Social Welfare
- Standards
- Student loan funds
- Teacher education
- Translating and interpreting
- Vaccination
- Web sites
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